Smart cities - Copenhagen

Green mobility and traffic safety in Copenhagen

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GREATER COPENHAGEN

• 4 million inhabitants

• Strong infrastructure

• Copenhagen Airport – Important North

European hub

• Harbours, bridges and an integrated

railway system facilitate easy supply of

goods and services

A changing world

Urbanization Climate Change

Globalization Health Issues New

Technologies Change in

Demography

UN - sustainable development goals

“..work in the spirit of partnership and pragmatism to make the right choices now to improve life, in a sustainable way, for future generations”

“..clear guidelines and

targets for all countries”

Dramatic development over the last 25 years

Visions and challenges

Quality of life

Traffic flow for all modalities

Traffic safety

Real time traffic information to all road users

Prioritizing green and sustainable mobility

Signal optimizing in a CO2 perspective

Mobility as a service

Long term transport political goal

At least 1/3 Biking At least 1/3 public transport No more than1/3 car

Specific goals for modes of transport Busses: Shorter travel time

and better regularity

Cars: Maintain travel times,

better regularity and fewer

stops

Cyclists: Shorter travel time

and fewer stops

Pedestrians: Priority in the

city centre, shopping streets

and at public transportation

Smart cities - Copenhagen

The World’s best cycling city

MODAL SPLIT 2016

Society’s benefits from cycling

Car traffic to cycling =

€0.50 per km.

Public transport - Metro

Cityringen

A completely new 15.5 km metro line under

downtown Copenhagen with 17 underground

stations opens July 2019.

Two extensions

The Nordhavn and Sydhavn extensions with

two and five new stations will be linked to

Cityringen in 2020 and 2024.

Public transport - Buses

Travel times, regularity, comfort

Bus plan 2019 – seamless shifts

By 2025 all buses has to be changed to

zero emission buses

Photo: Via Trafik

ITS - ECO-driving

Traffic signals and Onboard Unit communication Driver guidance for green light Less noise and air pollution

Traffic Safety - Vision Zero 2025 Political commitment

New way of organizing - broad cooperation

Road design

Education and campaigns

New demands on procurement (safe vehicles)

Technology

Killed in traffic accidents:

1985: 48

1991: 24

2016: 13

2017: 5

2018: 5

Typical accidents

Right turn accidents

Reckless driving - Young men

Injury by category of road user (2016)

Bicycle 48 %

Pedestrian 22 %

Car 20 %

MC 6 %

Moped 3 %

Other 1 %

Intelligent street

lighting Levels of street lighting is

reduced by 50 pct.

When cyclists are sensed

by detectors and the levels

are brought back to 100

pct. temporarily

The lighting system in

Copenhagen controls

each luminaire by a

central system.

ITS - Digitalization improves green mobility Data on bicycle data

Real time data for travel times for

bikes

Data on number of stops

Data on traffic safety and air pollution

Machine learning

Systems adaptive to

real time situations in

traffic

Monitor and repair

errors in traffic

management systems

Challenges

More data needed for mobility

services – enhanced demands for

personal security (GDPR)

Open protocols

Autonomous vehicles in real traffic

situations

Clarify political priorities in the

traffic management systems

Involve and engage users